Luisa Passerini is an oral historian,
writer, and professor of history. She began her career as
a researcher in Tanzania and Zambia. Returning to Italy, she
became involved in the movements of the late 1960s and 1970s,
particularly the feminist movement, about which she has written
a memoir,

Autobiography of a Generation.
She has taught in Australia, Germany, and the United States
as well as in Italy, where she is a Professor of History at
the University of Turin, and has just completed a term as
a Professor of 20th Century History at the European University
Institute in Florence. Passerini is the author of seven books
and the editor of eight. She has done pioneering oral history
work on the World War II period, focussing on themes of memory
and the Resistance; fascism and the working class; and is
currently doing an intellectual history of European identity
in relation to the idea of love.

Bibliography:

Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience
of the Turin Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987. (Translation of Torino operaia e fascismo.
Laterza: Roma-Bari, 1984.)

Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics
in Britain between the Wars. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998;
New York: New York University Press, 1999. (Translated into
Italian by il Saggiatore, Milano, 1999.)